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10/7/2008 10:26:00 AM Something Borrowed, Something Blue . . Cross/Blue Shield: Are American Couples Rushing to the Altar to Say "I Do" for Health Insurance?
9/30/2008 12:50:00 PM Routine Testing for HIV: Public Health versus Patient Privacy
9/24/2008 11:00:00 AM CMS Review Could Act as a Check on FDA Shortcomings
9/23/2008 2:28:00 PM The Privacy Act May Be Toothless
8/26/2008 4:23:00 PM The Battle Over Balance Billing Comes to a Head in California
8/19/2008 4:38:00 PM Refusing to Treat Patients: Are There Limits to Physician "Conscience" Claims?
8/19/2008 12:15:00 PM Human Organ Transplantation in the U.S. - Crossing New Lines?
8/4/2008 10:09:00 AM Competency Does Not Always Mean Competency, According to the Supreme Court
7/15/2008 Keeping Generic Drugs off the Market: Do Patents Hinder Healthcare?
7/15/2008 Children's Mental Health for Sale
6/24/2008 Wanted: A Miracle-Working Public Relations Staff to Save China from Itself
6/19/2008 Preventable Hospital-Acquired Errors: Lowering Costs by Refusing to Pay
6/11/2008 Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate Indirectly Focuses Spotlight on Safety of Pr eimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
6/4/2008 Promotion of Off-Label Uses of Prescription Medical Products: FDA's Proposed New Guidance
5/29/2008 Chantix - the No-Smoking Pill That Comes with a Price
5/29/2008 Whatever You Do, Don't Get Sick at Night
5/21/2008 Physicians as Expert Witnesses: Essential, But Who Regulates?
5/12/2008 Bio-identical Hormone Therapy: FDA Attempts to Regulate Pharmacy Compounding of Prescription Drugs
4/24/2008 Heparin Recall: Another Crisis for China & the FDA
4/23/2008 Transparency for Employers - Sacrificing Privacy in the Name of Insurance Shoppi ng
4/8/2008 Laser Hair Removal
4/7/2008 Medicare and Retiree Benefits - The Impact of AARP v. EEOC
4/2/2008 Health Care Costs for Our Gulf War Veterans: The Looming Disaster
3/31/2008 Redefining "User-friendliness": Privacy Concerns Related to Non-HIPAA Covered In ternet Personal Health Records
3/18/2008 The Medicare Trigger Bill - Its Time Has Come
3/18/2008 Oregon's Health Coverage Lottery - An Equitable Distribution Method or a Sign th at We Have Given Up
3/13/2008 Texas Courts Deal with Frozen Embryos Following Divorce
3/4/2008 Health Insurance Rescissions and What They Tell Us About Needed Reforms
2/26/2008 Mislabeled Food Hazards - Multiple Choices, One Answer
2/26/2008 The Vioxx Settlement: Salvation or Sell-Out?
2/25/2008 Torretti v. Paoli Memorial Hospital: The Third Circuit Adopts the "Actual Knowle dge" Standard for EMTALA Liability
2/25/2008 Health Access RI: What Happens When Discount Plans Meet Concierge Medicine
2/18/2008 Childhood Vaccines and Autism, Special Courts and Torts
1/31/2008 Baze v. Rees, Execution by Lethal Injection, and the Role of the Medical Profess ion
1/24/2008 A Recent Anti-trust Lawsuit Brings New Hope to Physician Owners' Battle With Com munity Hospitals
1/16/2008 To Plan B or Not to Plan B: Stormans, Inc v. Selecky and the Pharmacists' Right to Conscience
1/14/2008 Medical Tourism: A Serious Undergoing Serious Change
1/10/2008 Pay, Play, or Sue: A Review of the Ninth Circuit's Opinion in Golden Gate Restau rant Association v City and County of San Francisco, et al.
1/8/2008 Unborn v. Undocumented: A Collision of Policy and Politics
1/4/2008 Why A Checklist Will Not Be Saving Your Life
1/3/2008 The Myth and Reality of Drug Samples
12/19/2007 Physicians Weigh in on Pay for Performance: The Minnesota Medical Association R anks State Pay for Performance Programs
12/18/2007 Universal Health Coverage California Style: Lessons for Texas?
12/10/2007 Mental Health Parity: Is It Really Just Another Mandate?
12/3/2007 Restricting Second Trimester Abortion: The Implications of Gonzales v. Carhart
11/13/2007 Dying Patients and Their "Right" to Unapproved Drugs: Did the D.C. Circuit Final ly Get It Right in Abigail Alliance?
11/8/2007 A Little Too Late: The Public Health Response to the World Trade Center Attack
11/7/2007 Mental Health News Update
10/31/2007 The e-Health Initiative "Blueprint": Will Potential Profits Trump Patient Privac y?
10/30/2007 Does FDA Approval of a Drug Completely Shield the Pharmaceutical Manufacturer fr om Tort Liability in State Court? U.S. Supreme Court to Decide
10/16/2007 New Joint Commission Standard on Medical Bylaws Causes Hospital Indigestion
10/11/2007 Illinois' Plan B Case: A Compromise But Not a Solution
9/25/2007 A Good Attempt, Close to Perfect: Puerto Rico's First ART Regulations
9/24/2007 The False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007: Will It Bring a Third Era of False Claims Cases?
9/18/2007 Massachusetts' Health Reform: Where Does it Stand?
9/18/2007 Arrest of Transplant Surgeon Raises Concern Regarding Organ Donation After Cardi ac Death Procedure
9/17/2007 Betting on Pink or Blue? Ethics of Sperm Sorting for Sex Selection
8/29/2007 Hurricane Force Winds Destroy More Than Physical Structures
8/29/2007 Lead Paint Issues Rise Again: Are We Ready?
8/29/2007 The HPV Vaccine in Texas: Show Me the Money
7/12/2007 A Missed Opportunity to Bring Change for Women Suffering From Postpartum Depress ion
6/29/2007 IRS Ruling Clears the Way for Expanding Health Information Technology, But Who B enefits the Most?
6/18/2007 Public Health Emergencies and HIPAA: When is the Disclosure of Individual Healt h Information Lawful?
5/3/2007 William Hurwitz, Prosecution, and the Undertreatment of Pain
5/2/2007 Old Habits Are Hard To Change: The Fetal Abuse Debate
4/30/2007 Did the FDA Miss the Chance to "Test Drive" Its Proposed Conflict-of-Interest Ru les?
4/25/2007 The Debate Over the Fate of the Texas "Futile-Care" Law: It Is Time for Comprom ise
4/24/2007 The Patient and Family Treatment Choice Rights Act . . . Problem Solved?
4/23/2007 The Effect of Mandated Coverage on Decisions Regarding Single vs. Multiple Embry o Transfers
4/23/2007 The Need to Restore the Intent of the ADA- Focusing on the Discrimination and No t the Disability
4/11/2007 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Adopts Position of "Studied Neutrality" on Physician-Assisted Death
4/4/2007 Informed Consent in Umbilical Cord Blood Collection, Storage and Donation: A Bl oody Mess
3/26/2007 Might As Well Be Walking Through Quicksand: The Scourge of Unapproved New Drugs Deemed to Be Safe and Effective
3/26/2007 Designing a Baby: Why Is It Illegal in the United Kingdom but a Profitable Marke t in the United States?
3/22/2007 Federal Fraud and Abuse Enforcement Efforts Get Kicked Up a Notch, but Will It B e a Wash?
3/19/2007 Blondes Have More Fun . . . How Far Can We Go?
3/19/2007 D.C. Circuit Reconsiders Whether Individuals Have a Constitutional Right to Inve stigational Drugs
2/19/2007 Traumatic Brain Injury and the National Football League: A Growing Problem
2/19/2007 Nearly a Perfect 10: The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Provides Incentive for Fl orida to Amend Its Own False Claims Act Legislation
2/19/2007 HIPAA Criminal Prosecutions: Few and Far Between
2/8/2007 ERISA: The Fly in the Ointment for Universal Health Insurance
1/31/2007 Studies Point to Hospitals' Role in Prevalence of Hospital-Acquired Infections; Public Initiatives Gather Steam
1/31/2007 The Possibility that Men and Women Experience Pain Differently Has Significant L egal and Ethical Implications
1/16/2007 New Study Suggests Causal Relationship Between Drop in Breast Cancer Rate and Re duction of Prescriptions for Hormone Replacement Therapy
1/12/2007 The English Poor Laws, the MAA, and Present Efforts to Curtail Medicaid Spending
1/8/2007 Controversy Over Lethal Injection Procedures Implicates Complicated Questions of Pain Assessment
1/8/2007 Past and Future Perfect: Committee Reports on the Long-Defunct Medical Assistan ce to the Aged Program, and Their Relevance to Today's Debates, Part 1
12/20/2006 Missouri Medicaid Reform: Some Good Ideas, but the Plan Needs Revision
12/14/2006 HSA Policy Perplexities
12/11/2006 Texas Medical Association vs. Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners
12/1/2006 Medicaid Commission's Recommendations Would Cut Medicaid Spending While Increasi ng Federal and State Subsidies for Private Coverage
11/30/2006 Recent Finding that Widespread Use of Stents Appears Non-Efficacious Shows the I mportance of Evidence-Based Medicine
11/28/2006 Poliner v. Texas Health Systems: Exposing the Consequences of Federal and State Immunities in the Context of Medical Peer Review
11/28/2006 Overseas Gestational Arrangements and Texas Surrogacy Law
11/28/2006 Is It Time to Move Away from the Classical Standard of Informed Consent in Bioba nks?
11/27/2006 Americans and Reproductive Tourism
11/27/2006 The Professional Transformation of Hospital Administrators: Isn't It Time for Ma ndatory Licensing?
11/27/2006 Restricting Access of HIV-Infected Patients to Infertility Services
11/21/2006 Fact and Fiction in Organ Transplant Waiting List Fraud
11/13/2006 Medicare's Price Supports for Private Plans Should Be Reduced or Revoked
11/9/2006 Controversial South Dakota Abortion Law Overturned by Voters
11/7/2006 Misinterpretation of Significance of New Brain Technologies Has Legal and Ethica l Implications
11/6/2006 Why We Can't Outlaw Obesity
11/6/2006 Pay-for-Performance Gathers Strength
11/6/2006 O.C.G.A. §9-11-9.2: I Told You So, Now Fix It
11/6/2006 The Pharmaceutical Industry and OIG Discount Social Science Literature on Physic ian Lunches
11/6/2006 Good Samaritans or Mercy Killers: And Never the 'Twain Shall Meet
10/31/2006 Identity Theft That Can Kill You
10/31/2006 Not So Gray Anymore: A Mature Minor's Capacity to Consent to Medical Treatment
10/24/2006 Consumer-Directed Health Care and Health Care Rationing
10/23/2006 Reacting to Research Fraud Fails to Address Underlying Incentives to Commit Frau d
10/23/2006 2006 GAO Report Confirms Iraq War Veteran PTSD Health Care Is a Nightmare
10/5/2006 Another Look at the "Medical Malpractice Crisis"
10/5/2006 Controversy Swirls Around Lethal Injection Amidst Concerns Over Adequacy of Anes thesia
10/5/2006 Stanford Medical Center Adopts Strict Policy Regarding Industry Gifts to Physici ans
9/27/2006 Texas Legislature Should Address Procedural Inadequacies in Advance Directives A ct
9/27/2006 The "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act" and Its Potential Impact on Medical Care and Practice
9/12/2006 Children's Declining Access to Health Coverage
9/5/2006 Non-Urgent Patients Are Not a Primary Cause of Emergency Department Overcrowding
9/5/2006 California Legislature Passes Universal Health Care Bill
8/10/2006 Court Finds ERISA Bar to Maryland Effort to Force Large Employers to Provide Lim ited Health Insurance
8/7/2006 Physicians' Reliance on Electronic Health Records
8/7/2006 IT Vendor and Institutional Liability for Electronic Health Records
8/7/2006 Physicians' Obligation to Review Electronic Health Records Prior to Treatment
7/19/2006 Civil Rights and Health Disparities
6/30/2006 Physicians and Tort Reform
5/8/2006 California Considering Prison Condom Distribution
5/8/2006 Texas Law Fosters Development of Mental Health Courts
5/8/2006 S. 1955: Cost Savings via Thinner Benefits
5/8/2006 Final HIPAA Enforcement Rule Clarifies Process for Imposition of Civil Money Pen alties
5/8/2006 Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance Takes Bold New Step
5/8/2006 States Sue Federal Government over Medicare Clawback Payments
5/8/2006 Texas Legislature Is Reviewing Advance Directives Act
4/30/2006 Medicare Part D: An Uncertain Prescription for Reducing Drug Pricing Fraud
3/31/2006 Liability for Premature Births Resulting from IVF
3/31/2006 CDC Proposes New Rules to Deal with Communicable Disease, Including Quarantine
3/31/2006 Bird Flu and the FDA's Expedited Approval Processes: Is There Cause for Concern ?
3/31/2006 The Birds and the Bees: The New Millennium Version
3/31/2006 Fetal Sex Selection Research Study Approved
3/31/2006 SENATE BILL 3: Full of Sound and Fury, Authorizing Nothing
3/30/2006 The Role of Medicaid and the Case of South Carolina's "Healthy Connections" Prop osal
3/29/2006 Medicaid and Federal Cost-Shifting: A Zero-Sum Game
3/29/2006 Apology and Medical Error Full Disclosure Programs: Is Saying "I'm Sorry" the An swer to Reducing Hospital Legal Costs?
3/29/2006 Medical Tourism and the Demand for Hospital Accreditation Overseas
3/29/2006 Good News for Physicians: E-Prescribing Will Not Be Another Unfunded Mandate, A t Least Not Yet
3/29/2006 The Need for a Physician-Assisted Suicide Oversight Committee
3/28/2006 Florida's Medicaid Reform: Ideology, Rhetoric, and the Needs of Medicaid Benefic iaries
3/23/2006 Iraq War TBI Veterans Funding Remains Unmet
3/16/2006 Hawaii Supreme Court Overturns Conviction in Prenatal Substance Abuse Case
2/28/2006 Texas Jury Verdict Suggests Way for Plaintiffs to Get Around ERISA Preemption
2/28/2006 Everyone Wants Electronic Medical Records, But Who Can Really Afford Them?
2/27/2006 Diagnostic Ultrasound and Inappropriate Use of Fetal Imaging
2/9/2006 Target Corporation Suit Alleges Website Not Accessible by Blind
1/31/2006 Guidant Defibrillator Malfunction and the FDA
1/20/2006 Massachusetts Statute Highlights Controversy over Access to Emergency Contracept ion
1/6/2006 The Elusive "Reasonable and Necessary": Making a Determination of Coverage with Evidence Development
1/5/2006 Texas AG Opinion Says Texas May Not Import Prescription Drugs from Canada
12/15/2005 SCHIP Is No Panacea for Coverage Needs
12/15/2005 Posse Comitatus Should Not Be Revoked as a Response to Hurricane Katrina
12/15/2005 HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan Relies on Legal Preparedness of States
12/6/2005 A Crisis of Conscience: Pharmacists Decide Not to Dispense Contraception
12/6/2005 Personal Opinion or the Law - Which Should Be the Basis for Judges' Decisions on Minors' Petitions for Abortion?
12/6/2005 Texas Court Expands Scope of Practice for Texas Podiatrists
12/6/2005 Texas Joins Majority Requiring Parental Consent for Abortion
12/6/2005 Understanding IVF Success Rates and Legal Recourses for Misrepresentation
12/6/2005 Generic Drugs: An Alternative to Drug Re-importation
12/6/2005 TelaDoc Offers Telephone Consultations with Physicians
12/6/2005 FDA Approves First Racially Targeted Drug
12/6/2005 Error in Judgment or Breach of Standard of Care?
12/6/2005 FDA's Approval of Increlex: Medical Concern or Enhancement Drug?
12/6/2005 Marriage: A Requirement for Pregnancy by Assisted Reproduction Therapy
10/6/2005 Disasters and the Licensure and Reimbursement of Displaced Physicians
9/16/2005 Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General): The Supreme Court of Canada Deals a Blow to Publicly Funded Health Care
9/9/2005 Public Health Emergency Powers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
9/5/2005 Hurricane Katrina and the HIPAA Privacy Rule
9/1/2005 Disasters and Disease: The Public Health Law During States of Emergency
8/31/2005 Texas Legislation Opens Door to Internet Consultations by Physicians
8/31/2005 Privacy and Consent Concerns in International Genetic Databanks
8/31/2005 Destroying Unused, Unopened Prescription Drugs at Taxpayer Expense: An Update
8/31/2005 States Begin Requiring Cultural Competency Training for Doctors
8/23/2005 Health Law and the Relationship Between Prayer and Health Outcomes
8/23/2005 Patient Restraint Allegations and the False Claims Act
7/31/2005 OIG Clarifies HIPDB Reporting Requirements
7/29/2005 Will More Patients Sign Advance Directives Post-Schiavo?
6/30/2005 New CMS Guidance on Medicare Part D Creditable Coverage Notice Offers Helpful Di rection for Prescription Drug Plan Sponsors
6/30/2005 GAO Stresses Need for Federal Oversight of State Use of Contingency-Fee Consulta nts in Medicaid Financing
6/30/2005 DOJ Limits Application of HIPAA Criminal Penalty Provision
6/30/2005 Do Texas Medical Peer Review Privileges Effectively Preclude Malicious Credentia ling Claims?
6/30/2005 OIG Reports Exclusions, Criminal Actions, and Civil Actions for First Half of FY 2005
6/17/2005 Texas Legislature Addresses Insanity Defense
6/10/2005 Quid Pro Quo: Medicare Proposes Coverage Guidelines that Would Require Beneficia ry Participation in Data Registry
5/31/2005 Maintaining Personal Health Records on the Internet
5/17/2005 Nonphysician Providers "Scope of Practice" Continues to Expand
5/2/2005 OIG Approves Medical Malpractice Insurance Subsidy Arrangement
4/27/2005 Health Care Providers' Right to Refuse to Treat Patients
4/25/2005 Federal Fraud and Abuse Laws Complicate Hospital Charity Care Efforts
4/21/2005 Texas Legislature May Reconsider "Any Willing Provider" Statute
4/21/2005 CMS Attempts to Expand Surgical Informed Consent Requirements through Interpreti ve Guidelines, Not Regulations
4/21/2005 Optometrists Seek to Expand Scope of Practice Privileges
4/21/2005 Scope of Practice Review Process
4/21/2005 Therapeutic Justice for the Mentally Ill: Implementation of Mental Health Courts Should Proceed with Caution
4/21/2005 Cruzan, Terri Schiavo, and Death with Dignity: The Federalism of Life and Death
4/21/2005 What Happens to a Dentist's License Following an Arrest for Sexual Activity with a Minor?
4/21/2005 SB 1328 Would Align Several Texas Laws with the HIPAA Privacy Rule
4/21/2005 A Texas Stark Law?
4/21/2005 What Do You Mean
3/8/2005 JCAHO Report Fails to Identify Ways to Improve NPDB
3/1/2005 Health Savings Accounts Prove Popular in the Individual Market
2/21/2005 Pharmacy Benefit Managers May Be Hazardous to Your (Patients') Health
1/24/2005 CMS Backs Off Proposal that Would Have Required Hospitals to Ask Emergency Patie nts about Their Immigration Status
1/24/2005 ALJ Finds Illegal Price Fixing by Fort Worth Physician Group
1/24/2005 Medicare Help Line Not So Helpful
1/24/2005 Ex Parte Communications and the HIPAA Privacy Rule
12/10/2004 FDA Surveys Shed New Light on How Patients & Physicians View DTC Advertising of Prescription Drugs
12/2/2004 Game Theory Looks at Florida's Three Strikes Law
12/1/2004 Qui Tam Whistleblower's Claims Barred by Her Own Prior Court Disclosures of Info rmation
11/24/2004 Fighting Medicare Fraud in Long-Term Care Hospitals-within-Hospitals: OIG Docume nts Ongoing Failures while Industry Groups Complain
11/18/2004 Too Much of a Good Thing? USDA Blocks Private Efforts to Test For Mad Cow Diseas e
11/16/2004 Sense, but Sensibility? Moving Toward Association Health Plans
11/16/2004 Negligent Credentialing Claims Constitute Health Care Liability Claims Under MLI IA
11/4/2004 States Lead Battle to Contain Drug Costs
11/2/2004 11th Circuit Affirms Class Status of RICO, but not Prompt-Pay, Lawsuit
11/2/2004 Jung v. Association of American Medical Colleges: A Special Interest Victory
11/2/2004 Unraveling Roe by Grasping at Threads
10/15/2004 OCR Relies on Corrective Action, Not Civil and Criminal Sanctions, During First Year of Privacy Rule Enforcement
10/15/2004 Medicare Electronic Prescription Drug Programs
9/30/2004 Texas Insurance Statute Does Not Preclude Discounts for Uninsured
9/28/2004 Whole Foods' Consumer-Driven Health Plan Slows Growth of Medical Costs, May Nega tively Affect Employees with Chronic Medical Conditions
9/28/2004 JCAHO May Be Subject to Increased Accountability
9/23/2004 Ambulances, Ho! The Uniquely Precarious State of Health Care in Rural Far West T exas
8/31/2004 Court: Insurers Must Be Even Clearer In Explaining Retroactive Dates In Group Me dical Malpractice Policies
8/31/2004 U.S. Attorney Applies HIPAA Criminal Penalty Provisions in First Conviction for Privacy Violations
8/31/2004 TSBME Denies Medical Licensure to M.D./Ph.D. Student
8/27/2004 One More Setback For Gainsharing
8/27/2004 Molloy v. Meier The Supreme Court of Minnesota Finds a Duty to Warn Parents Rega rding a Child's Genetic Testing and Diagnosis
8/25/2004 Is Medicare's Obesity Coverage Policy Really a Policy?
8/20/2004 Medicare Part D May Accelerate Decline in Retiree Health Insurance
8/19/2004 Health Care Spending and Outcomes: The Grass Is Not Always Greener in Canada
8/19/2004 New FDA Guidance on DTC Advertising
8/19/2004 CMS Proposal Would Require Hospitals to Ask Emergency Patients about Their Immig ration Status
8/19/2004 New Medicare Part D Presents Challenges and Opportunities for Texas
7/29/2004 Structuring Physician Recruitment Arrangements in Accordance with the Stark II/P hase II Interim Final Rule
7/29/2004 ERISA Preempts Wrongful Denial of Benefits Causes of Action Involving "Pure Elig ibility Decisions"
7/16/2004 Retiree Health Benefits-Trends and Challenges
4/9/2004 St. David's Health Care System v. United States: How Should a Joint Venture Prot ect Its Tax Exempt Status?
4/9/2004 Texas Department of Agriculture Issues Stronger School Nutrition Policy for 2004 -2005
3/25/2004 Rowland Case Illustrates Maternal-Fetal Conflict
3/22/2004 Pelman v. McDonald's and the Fast Food Craze: Sending a Court to do a Man's Job
3/15/2004 Medical Information Protected by Amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act
3/15/2004 Ex Parte Jose Garcia Briseno: The Texas Approach to Implementation of the Suprem e Court's Decision in Atkins III
3/15/2004 The OIG Clarifies the Ability of Hospitals to Offer Discounts to the Uninsured a nd Indigent Medicare Beneficiaries
3/3/2004 New Medicare Health Savings Accounts
2/29/2004 Court-Compelled Contraceptive
2/29/2004 The Future of the Match Program is Looking Brighter, For Better or for Worse
2/29/2004 In Re Schiavo: The Saga Continues
2/29/2004 Should the Public Know Who is Reorganizing the Texas Health and Human Services C ommission?
2/5/2004 Synopsis: Corporate Compliance Programs: More than a Footnote Incorporation of § 8B2.1 into the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
2/2/2004 Prosecution of Prenatal Substance Abuse Allowed to Stand in McKnight Case
1/30/2004 This Job Is Killing Me! The Ninth Circuit's Absurd Opinion in Echazabal v. Chevr on
1/20/2004 New York Times Article about Minimally Conscious Patients Sparks Debate
1/15/2004 Gaming Medicare Hurts Uninsured
12/23/2003 Welfare and Dignity of the Subject Fundamental in Clinical Research
12/23/2003 Grubbs v. Barbourville Family Health Center, P.S.C. The Supreme Court of Kentuck y Refuses to Recognize Causes of Action for Birth Related Torts Against Physicia ns Who Fail to Timely Diagnose Incurable Genetic Birth Defects
12/23/2003 Expanding Health Flexible Spending Accounts to Reimburse Over-the-Counter Drugs: A Positive Move
12/15/2003 Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility
11/25/2003 Muddied Waters: FDA Encourages Use of Race in Clinical Drug Trials
11/11/2003 Texas Office of Patient Protection Established
11/10/2003 HHS's Latest Organ Donation Plan: Are 'Best Practices' the Answer?
10/15/2003 New California Law Requires Employers to Provide Employee Health Coverage
10/9/2003 CMS Announces Rule on EMTALA
10/7/2003 Should the Standard of Care Be Lower For Emergency Care?
8/28/2003 Government Employment May Be Hazardous To Your Health (Insurance)
8/28/2003 Texas Department of Agriculture Amends Nutrition Policy for Texas Schoolchildren
8/28/2003 Texas Kids Need CHIP: Can Texas Show Them the Federal Money?
8/28/2003 Thoughts on Informed Consent in the Era of Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Pharm aceuticals
8/27/2003 High Health Costs of Obesity
8/20/2003 Should Texas Establish Medical Savings Accounts for Retired Teachers?
8/18/2003 FDA Changes Food Labeling Requirements to Include Trans Fats
7/21/2003 Finding Middle Ground: Compelling the Use of Psychotropic Medications for Pretri al Detainees
7/21/2003 Finding Middle Ground: Compelling the Use of Psychotropic Medications for Pretri al Detainees
7/18/2003 HIPAA and S.B. 330: Unintended Consequences?
7/18/2003 Health Care Consumers Benefit from Supreme Court's Recent Decisions
7/18/2003 Youth Access Provisions of the MSA, Five Years Later
7/10/2003 Supreme Court Rejects "Treating Physician Rule" for ERISA Determinations
7/2/2003 Baby Boomers' Impact on Nursing Homes
6/18/2003 Patient-Friendly HIPAA Privacy Policies
6/14/2003 U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Kentucky's Any Willing Provider Statutes
5/30/2003 The Involuntary Medication of Condemned Convicts
5/25/2003 Medicate to Kill: Discussion of the Eighth Circuit's Opinion in Singleton v. Nor ris
5/22/2003 Give Patients a Fighting Chance
5/16/2003 U.K. Commission Releases Recommendations on Direct Sales of Genetic Tests
5/16/2003 Newborn Screening
5/15/2003 Negligent/Malicious Credentialing Claims: Do They Exist in Texas?
4/30/2003 Medicaid Block Grants: The Bush Administration Plays Hardball with Cash-Strapped States
4/29/2003 Informed Consent and Emergency Telephone Calls to Physicians
4/3/2003 Recent Legislative Efforts to Reduce Medical Errors: Voluntary Reporting will no t work without Protections from Liability
4/2/2003 Should Health Plans Use Social Security Numbers as Participant ID Numbers?
3/12/2003 SB 553 Task Force Adopts Recommendations for Legislative Consideration
3/4/2003 New JCAHO Safety Goals as Standard of Care
3/3/2003 Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
3/3/2003 HIPAA Preempts Louisiana Privacy Law
2/11/2003 Discarded Sharps May Be Easier to Find than a Needle in a Haystack
2/10/2003 Liability of the United States Military for Cross-Vaccination Complications
2/7/2003 Future of State Discount Drug Program in Doubt
2/5/2003 Buyer Beware: A Haunting Commercial Market
1/31/2003 Malicious Credentialing and the Cloak of Secrecy: KPH Consolidation, Inc. v. Rom ero
1/31/2003 HIPAA's Impact on Prisoners' Rights to Healthcare
12/31/2002 Functional Magnetic Resonance Images and Lie Detection
12/31/2002 The Texas Medical Association and Medical Malpractice Reform
12/23/2002 Thoughts on the Prospect of Elective Comprehensive Genome Screening
12/23/2002 Federal Court Invalidates the FDA Pediatric Rule: AAPS v. FDA
12/19/2002 The Texas Legislature's Response to the Growing Need for Organ and Tissue Donati ons: A Review of the Texas Anatomical Gift Education Program
12/4/2002 Vermont Law Targets Drug Marketing
12/3/2002 The Veterans Health Administration and Homeland Security
11/27/2002 Fifth Circuit Considers Impact of ERISA on Texans' Suits Against HMOs
11/27/2002 Rating Hospitals: Is Past Performance Indicative of Future Results?
11/19/2002 The United States House of Representatives Passes Healthcare Liability Limits
10/31/2002 Does HIPAA Prohibit"Precision-Targeted" Marketing of Drugs?
10/25/2002 Mammograms Imperfect, but Crucial to Early Detection
10/21/2002 Research Health Information and the HIPAA Privacy Rule
10/18/2002 When Does a Package Deal Become Illegal Tying in the Healthcare Context?
8/30/2002 We Live, We Learn
8/30/2002 FDA May Not Prevent Pharmacists from Promoting Compounded Drugs
8/30/2002 Let Them Eat Cake
8/30/2002 Nutrition in Schools
8/30/2002 Governor Orders Policy Changes to Encourage Community-Based Alternatives for Per sons with Disabilities
8/30/2002 Supreme Court Term Rough for ADA: U.S. Airways v. Barnett
8/20/2002 Legal Liability and the Occupational Physician
8/20/2002 Men's Health: Osteoporosis
7/22/2002 ACIP Releases Updated Smallpox Vaccination Strategy; Some Experts Disagree with Policy
7/16/2002 Texas May Increase Cigarette Excise Tax Rate
7/15/2002 Fortune Favors the Brave: The Continuing Story of Lorenzo's Oil
7/15/2002 Ohio Supreme Court Expands the Physician-Patient Relationship
7/5/2002 Questions Raised by John Q
7/3/2002 Tax Incentives for Physicians Providing Charity Care
7/2/2002 Trish74 and the Regulation of Surrogacy Contracts
7/1/2002 Fraudulent Access to Entitlement Programs: Is the Time Ripe for Legislative Inte rvention?
6/28/2002 E-Prescribing
6/27/2002 What is Causing the Dramatic Rise in Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates in Texa s?
5/30/2002 Medicare-Endorsed Rx Discount Cards Provide Seniors Temporary Relief at Best
5/14/2002 HHS Proposes Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule
5/10/2002 Our Border Health at Risk: Poverty, Disease, and No Health Insurance
4/30/2002 Living Organ Donations Raise Ethical Concerns
4/30/2002 Living Organ Donations Raise Ethical Concerns
4/30/2002 Talking to Your Patients by E-Mail? What Physicians Should Know About Electronic Relationships&
4/29/2002 Using Compliance Programs to Resolve Patient Billing Complaints
4/26/2002 Individual with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Did Not Have a Disability Under the ADA
3/26/2002 Cheaper By The Dozen: States Successfully Mandate the Extension of Drug Discount s to Affect More Low-Income Persons
3/4/2002 Telemedicine and Privacy: Texas Takesan Important Step to Overcome a Major Legal Barrier Facing the Answer to Its Rural Health Care Crisis
2/22/2002 Why Are States Raising Cigarette Taxes?
2/20/2002 Champagne Health Care and Caviar Dreams: Boutique Medicine in the United States
2/20/2002 Access to Health Care Coverage for Children Improves: Medicaid Simplification Sh ould Help Trend Continue
2/15/2002 Demise of Death with Dignity?
2/15/2002 Posthumously Conceived Children: Inheritance Rights in the 21st Century
1/31/2002 Prompt Payment Update
1/31/2002 Nursing School Enrollment Increases
1/31/2002 States May Set Anesthesia Standards
1/17/2002 State Employee Health Insurance Coverage for Tobacco Dependence
12/19/2001 Determining the Scope of Research-Related Injuries: A Study Worth Conducting
12/13/2001 HIPAA Compliance in a Small Practice: First Steps
12/13/2001 Health Law Certification: A Growing Need
12/7/2001 Current State of U.S. Patent Law Regarding Infringement of Drug Patents by the G overnment
11/28/2001 Draft Model State Emergency Health Powers Act Released for Consideration by Stat es
11/28/2001 When War Comes Home, Who Deserves Health Care? Who Pays?
11/12/2001 Texas Joins Other States Regulating Internet Pharmacies
11/9/2001 The Problem of Criminal Penalties in Civil Statutes: From Anti-Kickback to HIPAA , is the Scienter Requirement for Culpability Too Ambiguous?
11/9/2001 DEA Enters New Territory -- Supports Pain Treatment and Investigates Deaths Caus ed by a Brand Name Drug
11/8/2001 A Voice in Support of Accounting for Race and Language in Health Services
11/7/2001 Can We Hire You? A Look at Nurse Shortages and a Hospital's Ability to Counterac t the Loss of Workers
11/7/2001 Complementary and Integrative Medicine: An Update for Texas Physicians
10/23/2001 Surgical Revision of Intersex Children
10/23/2001 Texas Pharmacists Police Physician-Patient Relationship
10/22/2001 Viatical Industry Slips From Privacy Regulation Cover
10/4/2001 Texas Now Allows Automated Pharmacy Systems
10/4/2001 Black Boxes in the O.R.
9/28/2001 "You Gotta See It to Believe It."
8/31/2001 Casey Martin Challenged the PGA Tour and Won: Hole-in-One for the ADA or Sign of the Long Par 5 Ahead?
8/31/2001 Distinctions Without a Difference?: Ethnicity and Race in Genetic Research
8/31/2001 Genetic Nondiscrimination Laws in Health Insurance
8/31/2001 Federal Funds May be Used for Limited Stem Cell Research
8/31/2001 Where Every Man Is An Island: A Comment on Immigrant Health Care
8/30/2001 Texas Medical Privacy Act Adopts and Expands the HIPAA Privacy Regulations
8/30/2001 Genetic Nondiscrimination Laws in Employment
8/29/2001 Connecticut High Court Addresses Tobacco Preemption
8/29/2001 Limiting the Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities for Patients Under 21
8/29/2001 Mental Health Parity: Legislating Equality in Health Insurance Coverage
8/29/2001 The Supreme Court Rules on the Distribution of Medicinal Marijuana
8/29/2001 Transdermal Delivery of Medications Shows Promise, But Barriers Remain
8/28/2001 Undocumented Immigrants Face Curtailed Health Care Services
8/27/2001 New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Use of Contract in Determining Disposition of Frozen Preembryos
8/26/2001 Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000: Providing Treat ment for Uninsured Women
8/24/2001 Protecting Biometrics Identifiers
8/21/2001 The CVS File Buy Program: Are Your Pharmacy Records Safe?
8/17/2001 Imported Pharmaceuticals May Be Hazardous to Your Health
8/17/2001 Federal Preemption Now a Barrier to Local Tobacco Ordinances
8/16/2001 NAACP Sparks Attention to Lead Poisoning
7/25/2001 Self-Disclosure Under the False Claims Act
7/25/2001 Fetal Stem Cell Research
7/25/2001 Federal Patients' Rights Legislation
7/23/2001 The High Cost of AIDS Drugs in Africa
6/16/2001 The HIPAA Privacy Regulation: A Concise Summary
4/19/2001 Agbor and Credentialing Suits by Patients
4/12/2001 Third Party Beneficiaries of Business Associate Contracts Under The Health Insur ance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Regulations
4/12/2001 Update on Oregon's Death with Dignity Act: Will it Last Under the New Administra tion?
2/18/2001 Regulation of Smoking in Restaurants
11/29/2000 Publish Municipal Ordinances on the Internet
11/29/2000 Unopened, Unused Prescription Drugs Destroyed at Taxpayer Expense
11/29/2000 The Difficulties in Defining Medical Necessity
11/15/2000 Lawmakers Run to Prefile Bills for 77th Texas Legislative Session
10/25/2000 Public Access to the National Practitioner Data Bank?
10/19/2000 Genetically Engineered Foods: Should We Be Concerned?
10/2/2000 Legal Liability for Bioethicists Involved in Research
9/19/2000 Can the Texas Board of Medical Examiners Discipline Medical Directors for Denial of Care?
9/11/2000 FDA Finalizes Policy on Reprocessing Single-Use Medical Devices for Reuse
9/6/2000 The Entwined Destinies of Roe v. Wadeand Assisted Reproductive Technology
8/31/2000 Organ Shortage Creates Opportunities for Heroism, Raises Ethical Questions
8/28/2000 Laser Eye Surgery Referral Fees Raise Ethical Concern
8/21/2000 State-Mandated External Review: Panacea, Empty Promise, or Modest Policy Success ?
8/17/2000 Is a Nicotine Vaccine the Magic Bullet for Smoking Cessation?
8/7/2000 The Myth of the Quality of American Health Care
8/3/2000 The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance Act of 1999: Too F ast and Too Federal?
7/27/2000 State Legislators Considering Measures to Control Drug Costs
6/30/2000 Should FDA Make More Drugs Available OTC?
6/23/2000 Court Upholds Right to Sue MCOs and Anti-Retaliation Provisions, Strikes Indepe ndent Review Process
5/31/2000 Going Once, Going Twice, Sold with a Click: Drugs and the Online Auction House
5/30/2000 White Pill, Yellow Pill, Red Pill, Brown Pill: Pharmacogenomics and the Changing Face of Medicine
5/26/2000 Should States License Automated Pharmaceutical Dispensing Machines?
5/19/2000 Should We Embrace Genetic Discrimination?
5/18/2000 Congress Proposes to Expand Medicare to Include Coverage For Outpatient Prescrip tion Drugs
5/8/2000 Are You Ready To"Name Your Own Price" for Surgery?
5/3/2000 The Texas-Aetna Settlement: A Significant Experiment in Managed Care Reform
4/19/2000 Have Prescription, Must Travel: A Look at the Link Between a Pharmacy's Inventor y and the Racial Composition of Its Customer Base
4/12/2000 Massachusetts Court Diminishes Role for Contract in Reproductive Decisions
4/11/2000 FDA Issues Proposed Guidance: Institutional Review Boards, Clinical Investigator s, and Sponsors: Exception from Informed Consent Requirements for Emergency Rese arch
4/4/2000 Filming in the ER: Invasion of Privacy or Public Service?
4/4/2000 Incorporating Cost Criteria in Health Policymaking: The Case of Vaccination
4/1/2000 e-Health Ethics Initiative
3/31/2000 Medicating Kids with Behavioral Problems: Solution or Problem?
3/27/2000 Texas Board of Medical Examiners Adopts Internet Prescribing Policy
3/27/2000 School Choice Would Leave Needy Further Behind
3/22/2000 Supreme Court Holds F.D.A. Cannot Regulate Tobacco: Tobacco Industry Dodges Anot her Bullet
3/7/2000 Houston's Immunization Rates Lag Behind Other Cities
2/29/2000 Fifth Circuit Joins Seventh in Rejecting ADA Attacks on AIDS Benefit Caps
2/28/2000 Former Attorney General Thornburgh Reflects on the Americans with Disabilities A ct's Tenth Anniversary
2/25/2000 Is Compulsory Vaccination Compatible with Informed Consent?
2/23/2000 Should Insurers Pay for Bone Marrow Transplants to Treat Breast Cancer?
2/22/2000 Electronic Surveillance in the Service of Health
2/1/2000 Swimming in Red Ink: Health Care Institutions Flailing and Failing
1/31/2000 Are Spider Bites "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"?
1/20/2000 Can We Regulate Overseas Pharmacies?
1/10/2000 You Can Get Anything You Want: Internet Pharmacies Overstep Boundaries
12/22/1999 Mandatory Reporting for Medical Mishaps: Is There Middle Ground?
12/21/1999 FDA Proposes Strategy to Address Single-Use Medical Devices
12/17/1999 Protecting Private Medical Information: Liability for Unauthorized Disclosure
12/16/1999 Responsibilities of Employers Under Proposed Privacy Rule
12/10/1999 Move Prescriptions Online Now
12/10/1999 Fighting Fraud: Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
11/24/1999 Research-Related Provisions of the Proposed Privacy Regulations
11/18/1999 UnitedHealth Group Gives Physicians Final Say in Approving Treatment
11/18/1999 The Health Care Fairness Act of 1999
11/9/1999 Proposed Privacy Standards: Background and Overview
11/5/1999 Reliable Health Coverage: The Key to Employment for Many People with Disabilitie s
10/21/1999 Memory in Mice, Nothing More Yet
10/19/1999 Legislating Nurse-to-Patient Ratios: California Legislation Falls Short
10/19/1999 Victims of Domestic Violence Deserve Safe Shelters
10/15/1999 Federal Government Funds National Campaign to Eliminate Syphilis
10/14/1999 Are Medical Directors Performing Utilization Review"Practicing Medicine"?
10/8/1999 Sterilization Program Not All It's C.R.A.C.K.ed Up to Be
10/5/1999 Uninsured Rate Soars Amid Prosperity
9/30/1999 Paying for Pills: The Challenge Posed by Escalating Prescription Drug Costs
9/24/1999 New Round in the Battle Against the Superbugs
9/24/1999 Should You Place Your Medical Records on the Internet?
9/23/1999 Surgeon General Promotes Health of the Nation: Unlocking Health Care for the Uni nsured, Underserved, Underrepresented, Uninspired, and Uninformed
9/21/1999 Discipline of Oregon Physician for Undertreating Pain is an Appropriate Response to a Serious Problem
9/17/1999 No Duty to Warn of Threats of Violence: Dispelling the Myth in Texas Jurispruden ce
9/14/1999 Web Ethics: Another Challenge to Reliability of Health Information on the Intern et
9/13/1999 Physician Disciplined for Undertreating Pain
9/10/1999 Human Infection from "Mad Cow Disease" in the U.S.?:
8/31/1999 Limiting the Intrusiveness of Forensic DNA Sampling
8/31/1999 Should FDA Limit Interstate Shipment of Compounded Pharmaceuticals?
8/25/1999 Epilepsy and the ADA: The Fallout of Sutton Begins
8/25/1999 Drug Manufacturer Liability in Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Cases
8/17/1999 New Rules on Access to Research Data Excite Controversy
8/12/1999 End-of-Life Decision-making for Pregnant Women
8/11/1999 New Texas Law Authorizes Disciplinary Action Against Health Care Providers Who F ail to Effectuate Advance Directives
8/11/1999 New Texas Law Authorizes Disciplinary Action Against Health Care Providers Who F ail to Effectuate Advance Directives
8/6/1999 Are States Spending Tobacco Settlement Funds Wisely?
8/3/1999 Smallpox and Bioterrorism: A Growing Threat
8/2/1999 Health Fraud Dot Com: Federal Authorities Warn of False Health Claims on the Int ernet
7/22/1999 As August Deadline Approaches, Privacy Debate Heats Up
7/20/1999 Extensive Texas Physician Profiles Will Soon Be Available to Public
7/16/1999 Fertility Clinics Should Bear the Extraordinary Medical Costs of Multiple Births
7/6/1999 New Statutory Rules for Witnessing Advance Directives in Texas
6/29/1999 Ombudsman Programs for Managed Care
6/29/1999 Employer Won't Test for Violence Gene
6/28/1999 Checking Out Your Doctor's Credentials on the Internet
6/28/1999 Checking Out Your Doctor's Credentials on the Internet
6/23/1999 Supreme Court Rules on Olmstead Case
6/14/1999 Advances in Fetal Surgery Raise Many Issues
6/10/1999 Treating Instead of Punishing Drug Addiction
6/9/1999 Changes in Enforcement at the Office for Protection from Research Risks
6/8/1999 TMA- and AMA-Supported State Legislative Proposal May Allow Some Physicians to C ollectively Negotiate with Managed Care Insurers in Texas
6/8/1999 The New "Natural Death Act:" Will It Afford A More Just Result?
6/1/1999 Mandated Mammography Benefits--Do Exceptions Swallow the Rule?
5/31/1999 Food-borne Illness From Raw Shellfish
5/26/1999 Market Making Inroads in Organ Transplantation, Assisted Reproduction
5/25/1999 Insurance Coverage for Medical Foods
5/20/1999 State Legislatures Address Issues of Protecting Health Care Workers From Sharp M edical Instruments
5/20/1999 Texas Legislature Passes Medical School Exception to the Corporate Practice of M edicine Doctrine
5/19/1999 States Refine Laws Targeting Genetic Discrimination
5/19/1999 Change the Way We License Texas' Teen Drivers
5/17/1999 State Legislatures Consider What to Do about HMO Insolvencies
5/11/1999 Medicaid Managed Care: An Overview of the Issues
5/7/1999 Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
4/15/1999 Consider Dr. Kevorkian Stopped, But Important Issues Linger
4/13/1999 Bragdon v. Abbott -- First Circuit Rules on Direct Threat Defense to ADA Claim
4/13/1999 Should Medical Licensing Examinations Be Required for Physician Licensure?
4/13/1999 Should Medical Licensing Examinations Be Required for Physician Licensure?
4/13/1999 Texas Legislature to Address Issues on Viral Hepatitis
4/12/1999 Medical Records Privacy: A Hot Issue for Action in 1999
4/12/1999 Deterring Health Care Fraud and Abuse
3/31/1999 Privacy of Pharmacy Records
3/31/1999 Patient Consent for Emergency Care: Recent State Initiatives
3/25/1999 Prophylactic Surgery Option Forces Difficult Choices
3/16/1999 Prisoner Has No Eighth Amendment Right to Protease Inhibitors
3/11/1999 Cloning in the Eyes of God: The Argument that Cloning is Not Prohibited by Jewis h Law
3/8/1999 Newborn Hearing Screening
3/8/1999 The Growing Problem of the Uninsured: Why Is It So Hard To Resolve?
3/5/1999 The Ten Million Dollar Man
3/5/1999 Supreme Court Issues Further Clarification about Required Health Services Under Special Education Mandates
2/26/1999 Oregon Reports on the First Year of Legal Physician-Assisted Suicide
2/26/1999 Mandatory Premarital HIV Testing
2/19/1999 Ephedrine Remains a Public Health Threat While Regulatory Squabbles Linger
2/17/1999 Physicians and Patients Claim HMO Cost-cutting Incentives Violate ADA
2/17/1999 Sophisticated, Screened Medical Information Now Available on the Internet
1/29/1999 Texas Hospital Seeks Preemptive Court Order for Continued Treatment of a Prematu re Infant: An Ethics Committee Usurped?
1/28/1999 New Initiative Addresses Long-term Care
1/28/1999 Why Is Consumer Demand For Medical Savings Accounts Lower Than Anticipated?
1/25/1999 New EMTALA Position Announced
1/25/1999 Informed Consent on Behalf of Children
1/25/1999 Genetics and Life Insurance
1/20/1999 Efforts to Regulate Physician Financial Incentives
1/20/1999 Does Funding Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs Save Money For State Governments?
1/20/1999 Year 2000 Issues Facing the Health Care Industry
12/31/1998 The Impact of Physician Financial Incentives
12/30/1998 Ethical Issues Regarding Cosmetic Surgery for Minors
12/30/1998 Physician-Assisted Suicide
12/8/1998 Managed Care Will Receive an Overhaul with the 106th Congress
12/8/1998 Ethical and Practical Benefits of the New Atypical Antipsychotic Medications
12/2/1998 Beneficiaries Caught in the Crossfire: The Battle Between Medicare and the Home Health Industry
11/30/1998 Can I Sue My Health Care Provider for False or Deceptive Statements?
11/29/1998 "Sorry, You Can't Receive That Procedure": The Clinton Administration's Attempt to Limit Senior Citizens' Health Care
11/25/1998 Ethical and Public Health Implications of Under-counting Violent Crime
11/25/1998 State Licensure Issues Hamper Telemedicine
11/25/1998 Shifting Responsibility for Health Care Billing Mistakes in Texas
11/23/1998 Genetic Malpractice Claims Raise Legal and Ethical Issues
11/13/1998 Report from the Field: National Conference on Patient Safety
11/10/1998 Should Cancer Screening Be a Part of Indigent Health Care in Texas?
10/30/1998 State Regulation of Non-Profit Hospital Conversions
10/28/1998 The Treatment of Asymptomatic HIV Infection
10/27/1998 You’re Telling Me I Was Given Artificial Blood?:The Controversy over Emergency Research
10/23/1998 Medicinal Use of Marijuana
10/21/1998 Condoms in Schools
10/19/1998 Should the Texas Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act be Amended?
10/19/1998 Washington Physician Charged with Murder: A Vindictive Prosecution?
10/15/1998 The Rising Number of Complaints Against HMOs, and What to Make of It
10/15/1998 Peanut Butter Bans and the ADA
10/8/1998 Body Parts: Should They Be Kept Out of the Marketplace?
9/29/1998 The Ethics of Seeking the Killer Flu
9/29/1998 Two Important Physician-Protection Provisions Struck Down by Court
9/28/1998 A New Weapon Against Managed Care Organizations: ERISA
9/23/1998 Growing Acceptance and Regulation of Alternative Medicine in the United States
9/22/1998 Court Upholds Right to Sue MCOs, but Independent Review Process Limited
9/17/1998 ADA Requires Bar Examiners to Provide Accommodations for Applicant with Learning Disability
9/16/1998 Mandatory HIV Testing of Prisoners
9/10/1998 Dietary Supplements: Caveat Athlete
9/9/1998 Texas Issues New "Report Cards" Comparing HMOs
9/8/1998 Just What the Doctor Did Not Order: Pre-Employment Examinations and ADA Liabilit y
9/8/1998 The Betel Nut: An Emerging Public Health Threat?
8/31/1998 Underlying Issues Important Part of Cloning Debate*
8/31/1998 Behavioral Health and Managed Care
8/27/1998 Application of Prudent Layperson Standard to Patients' Access to Emergency Care Gains Acceptance But Still Faces Hurdles
8/19/1998 FDA Lacks Jurisdiction to Regulate Tobacco
8/17/1998 HIV/AIDS and African-Americans
8/17/1998 Michigan Court Allows AIDS Testing of Food Service Employees
8/17/1998 Physicians and Unions
8/17/1998 Videotapes of Ultrasounds and Deliveries: Home Videos or Malpractice Evidence?
8/3/1998 TDI Reminds Health Insurance Plans To Issue Independent Review Notices
8/3/1998 ERISA Plan May Exist Where Only One Employee Is Involved
7/29/1998 Unique Health Identifiers Feared as a Threat to Privacy
7/29/1998 Texas Supreme Court Addresses Discovery Rule in Latent Occupational Disease Case s
7/23/1998 Thalidomide--Will Physicians Comply with FDA Rules?
7/23/1998 ERISA Preemption Plagues Courts and Individuals: the Need for Congressional Acti on
7/17/1998 Constitutional Challenges Brought Against State Statutes That Criminalize HIV Tr ansmission
7/17/1998 Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Standardization Act
7/16/1998 Finding Medical and Health Policy Information on the Internet
7/15/1998 Kevorkian Proposes to Furnish Organs from Assisted Suicide
7/15/1998 Proposed Patient's Rights Legislation--Understanding the ERISA Preemption
7/1/1998 New Research Indicates that Untreated Pain is a Major Problem Among Older Nursin g Home Residents With Cancer
6/29/1998 Genetic Information and Long-Term Care Insurance
6/26/1998 Bragdon v. Abbott -- Supreme Court Decision Addresses Application of Americans w ith Disabilities Act to Individuals with HIV
6/25/1998 Differences in Rates of Premature Death and DiseaseBetween Socioeconomic Groups in the U.S.: Important New Research
6/23/1998 Should Pregnant Women be Subject to Criminal Prosecution for Activities that are Harmful to Their Fetuses?
6/16/1998 Supreme Court Decides Yeskey Case
6/15/1998 Do Physicians of Potentially Dangerous Patients Owe a Duty to Third Parties?
6/15/1998 Geissal v. Moore Medical Corp.: Supreme Court Extends Scope of COBRA Benefits
6/9/1998 Should Donative Intent Be Presumed To Increase The Number Of Organs Available Fo r Transplantation?
6/4/1998 Hospital Liability for Negligence of Independent Contractor Physicians
6/3/1998 Of Mice and Journalists: Sound Public Policy Demands A Cautious Reaction to Medi a Hype of Health Issues
5/22/1998 EMTALA's Financial Incentives Cause Conflict between Compassion and Limited Reso urces
5/20/1998 Viagra Prescriptions on the Internet: Is this Telemedicine?
5/19/1998 Report of Medicare Fraud in Hospice Care Bodes Ill for Both Patient Care and Cos t Savings from Policy Shift
5/8/1998 Overlooked Implications of Study on Physician-Assisted Suicide
5/8/1998 Why Does it Take So Long for the FDA to Approve New Drugs?
4/27/1998 Causes of Action Arising out of Adverse Drug Reactions
4/24/1998 Clinton Rejects Needle-Exchange Programs: Should We Provide Bleach & Condoms to Prisoners?
4/24/1998 Another Mental Health Confidentiality Case May Join the Tarasoff Lineage
4/16/1998 Genetic Testing and Discrimination in Health Insurance
4/14/1998 Flight Attendants and Spontaneous Abortions: a New Study
4/10/1998 Implementing the Use of Rapid HIV Tests
4/10/1998 Implementing the Use of Rapid HIV Tests
4/10/1998 Will Your Health Care Plan Pay For Tamoxifen?
4/8/1998 California Appellate Court Holds Divorcing Spouses Who Were Intended Parents of Child Resulting from Anonymous Egg and Sperm Donorsand Brought to Term by Surrog ate to Be Legal Parents of Child
4/6/1998 First Known Death Under Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law Is Treated With Appropriat e Caution
4/1/1998 Decreased Budgets Result in Jails Becoming Mental Institutions
3/31/1998 Mandated Mental Health Benefits for Children
3/25/1998 Eleventh Circuit Finds No Antitrust Violation in "Preferred Provider" Arrangemen t by Hospitals
3/23/1998 Decline in U.S. Cancer Rates Raises Future Policy Concerns
3/23/1998 Doctors' Fear Causes Oregon Law On Assisted Suicide To Go Unused
3/19/1998 Texans Appeal Few Cases to Independent Review Organizations
3/13/1998 Secretary Shalala Proposes Revising Priority for Recipients of Donated Organs